Kurdish `Ulama and their Indonesian disciples

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Kurdish `Ulama and their Indonesian disciples

Bruinessen, M.M. van

(1998) Utrecht University Repository

(Preprint)

Abstract

The Indonesian archipelago, which is the largest island group in
the world and very rich in natural resources, has been visited by
sailors and traders from many parts of the world as long as there
has been seaborne traffic. Wave upon wave of migrants arrived
from mainland Southeast Asia; the monsoon winds brought
Chinese from ... read more the north, Indians and Arabs from the west, and
smaller numbers of people from numerous other nations. It is not
surprising, therefore, to find in Indonesian Islam the traces of
many other Islamicised cultures. show less